Posted: 25th Feb, 2003 By: MarkJ
The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) has come up with a scheme that's designed to alert operators to hot spots of broadband demand where such services aren't available:
The EEDA announced on Tuesday that this brokerage service had identified its first two areas of unserved broadband demand. These are Diss -- the Norfolk market town -- and Ipswich business start-up centre Felaw Maltings, which houses over 60 firms within one building.
Broadband service providers are now being invited to bid for the right to offer broadband to these two communities.
The brokerage scheme is a key part of the EEDA's Demand Broadband campaign, which was set up to address the fact that broadband isn't available across large swathes of eastern England.The
ZDNet item reports that you can find out more about the scheme at EEDA's website:
http://www.demandbroadband.com